How Christian nationalists Are Taking Control Of The Country In Plain Sight
In recent years, we’ve seen a surge in political extremism, culture-war stunts, and direct attacks on basic freedoms. All of it is driven by Christian nationalists. These are not just random incidents that are disconnected, or “both-sides” political squabbles. Every single one of these events is part of a long-term, coordinated, well-funded movement.
Law enforcement, media, and democratic politicians like to sell these false narratives far too often. They avoid calling this what it is: domestic terrorism led mainly by the far right because it’s white men.
Multiple datasets from 2020–2025 (DHS, FBI, CSIS, ADL) show that right-wing extremists (MAGA-aligned, white supremacist, anti-government) account for the vast majority of U.S. domestic terror incidents and fatalities (75% to 90% of them).
This isn’t a fringe theory, some cooked-up conspiracy, or just a few loud and radical pastors. It’s an ideology rooted in Dominion Theology and the Seven Mountains Mandate. Its goal is to reconstruct the U.S. as a white Christian state, and it has already infiltrated the highest levels of American politics, law, and culture.
This guide breaks it down so you can understand this ideology and push back against it effectively. Whether you live in America or elsewhere in the World, you can be part of the opposition.

The Heavy Evangelical Influence On Politics
White Christian Nationalism, as well as white supremacy, is now embedded across all four branches of power: the Executive, the Senate, the House, and the Supreme Court.
Their project is simple: build a theocracy. The people driving it-politicians, judges, billionaires, media moguls-are powerful, well-connected, well-funded, and increasingly open about seeing democracy as the obstacle. It is the enemy-as is the rule of law in its current form. With an insatiable appetite for power, they are reshaping America in their image. Policies that harm immigrants and U.S.-born citizens alike are not accidents; they’re the point.
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The aim is to replace democracy with rule by one narrow brand of Christianity. To stop it, we have to understand the ideology, the network behind it, and how it now runs through the Republican Party, the Supreme Court, and Donald Trump’s administration
“This movement is Christian Nationalism in its purest form.
It’s authoritarian. It’s cult-like. It’s domestic terrorism.
And it’s a serious threat for everyone—believers and non-believers alike.”

How Dominion Theology Began
Dominion Theology takes a single Bible verse—Genesis 1:28 and twists it into a command for Christians to dominate every aspect of society. Mainstream Christians read this as stewardship of the earth. In stark contrast, Dominionists recast it as a political mandate to control the law, culture, and daily life of everyone. That reinterpretation is the seed of an ideology that rejects pluralism, equality, and democracy.
Christian Myths That Led To Dominion Theology
Before covering how this theology was created and embedded into Christian right politics, there are two myths it was born from that need to be addressed.
Myth 1: America Is A Christian Nation
It isn’t. The U.S. was founded on religious liberty, not religious rule. The truth is that America is a country that was founded on religious liberty. Most Founders were deists, skeptical of church authority and revelation. Deism emphasizes that God’s existence is revealed through nature (natural theology). Natural religion is the acceptance of a certain body of religious knowledge that is inborn in every person, and not forcing religion on people. The founders argued for freedom of conscience, not forced adherence to any creed.
To learn more, read ‘The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American’ by Andrew Seidel, a Constitutional lawyer. It unpacks how “Christian nation” rhetoric distorts the record.

Myth 2: The Bible Commands Christians To Rule With An Iron Fist
Genesis 1:28 has been cherry-picked to argue that Christians should rule people. Read in full, the “dominion” described is over the natural world, not other humans. But Christian nationalists like to only read up until the part that says, “Fill the earth and subdue it.” Throughout the New Testament, Jesus invites—he doesn’t coerce—and even instructs, “Render unto Caesar,” acknowledging secular authority.
The “iron fist” claim isn’t biblical; it’s a political project.

Dominion Theology’s Ideological Roots: Puritan’s “City On A Hill”
Dominionism’s roots tie back to the early American Puritans’ “city upon a hill”—vision of a divinely guided society. The metaphor of the city came from Jesus’s sermon on the mount. John Winthrop’s 1630 sermon “A Model of Christian Charity” warned that a Christian colony would be a public example, for good or ill.
In the mid-20th Century, historian and literacy scholar Perry Miller revived public interest in Puritan thought, elevating “city upon a hill” in American identity. It went from obscurity to becoming almost a founding document.
Later, politicians—most famously Ronald Reagan—reframed it as American exceptionalism. The marriage of religion and nationalism still powers the Christian Nationalist project.

The Architects Of Dominionism
The modern movement traces back to R.J. Rushdoony, the father of Dominion Theology and Christian Reconstructionism. His work more clearly defined Dominion Theology. He is also credited as being an inspiration for the modern Christian homeschool movement. Rushdoony’s significant influence on American education gets overlooked. He argued that education is inherently religious, and a family’s right to homeschool their children is a key component of religious liberty.

Things You Should Know About Rousas John Rushdoony
Rousas John Rushdoony —Calvinist theologian and founder of Christian Reconstructionism—turned “dominion” into a theocratic blueprint. If you are unfamiliar with this theology, it believes that the Bible is 100% accurate, 100% inerrant, and 100% literal.
Through the Chalcedon Foundation that Rushdoony founded in 1965, he argued that Old Testament law should replace U.S. civil law and that both church and state must submit to his interpretation of Scripture.
Core to his theology is the belief that the Bible is inerrant and literal. Core to his politics: democracy is flawed, pluralism is immoral, and only Christianity should shape public life. His work laid the groundwork for the modern Christian homeschool movement and provided the intellectual spine for today’s Christian Nationalism.
Christian Restructionism advocates for a biblical worldview applied to literally all areas of life even if that means applying it by force in the Country.
His promotion of Christian reconstructionism – the idea that America has to rebuild America under Christian principles, on the myth that America was founded on Christian is what we are watching unfold.
As an aside, another thing worth noting is that in a theocracy, it’s common to see a government whose leaders are members of the Clergy – of course, that is largely not the case in America under Trump.

Reconstructing America As A Theocratic Christian State
Rushdoony’s program was explicit. Reconstruct America as a theocracy, based on how this minority of White Christian Reconstructionists interpret the bible. If You Follow American Politics today, the term Christian Reconstructionism may have come up in connection with religious extremists like Pete Hegseth and JD Vance.
Important to keep emphasizing that all of this depends on the restoration of very extreme biblical laws. In The Institutes of Biblical Law, he argued that Civil Law must mirror Old Testament Codes.

As Dominion theology and the seven mountains mandate were built by this man, it’s important to understand that the things he promoted are insane. Yet many powerful, wealthy individuals share his views. These were his core teachings:
1. Biblical Law As Civil Law
Using the Old Testament law, including the civil codes in Leviticus and Deuteronomy, all laws must come from the Bible. Offences including adultery, blasphemy (their interpretation of), homosexuality merit capital punishment (death) because that’s what it says in the bible.
2. Theonomy And Dominion Theology
Christians are mandated to bring every sphere of society under Christ’s rule. This is the foundation of what later becomes the seven mountains mandate (the specifics of how to do this). This is repackaged in today’s far-right political movement in Trump’s administration, the Republican party, Supreme Court judges, billionaires, and MAGA.
3. Postmillennialism
A Christian “golden age” precedes Christ’s return, achieved through political control.
Yes, dominionists truly believe that Christ will return after a Golden age on earth. But this is only possible through Christian dominion and obedience to biblical law.
Many people currently in charge of America at the Federal and State levels share this belief.
“Golden Age of America begins right now”

4. Anti-Public Schools: Education As A Threat To Christianity
Public Education is a threat because it’s a form of “humanist indoctrination”; homeschooling is a moral Christian obligation. People should only have a Christian education. Not everyone is entitled to education.
Put another way, public education is a tool for the secular state to indoctrinate children in anti-Christian values. The rhetoric that university professors are indoctrinating our kids comes from Rushdoony.
This homeschooling theology plays a critical role in dominion theology because these Christians believe in extremely strict gender roles. Women should have as many babies as possible, too.

A Woman’s Place Is In The Home With Lots Of Children
In practice, this means rigid gender control. Women are told their “place” is in the home, bearing and homeschooling many children (the Quiverfull approach). Banning abortion and restricting contraception aren’t side issues; they’re central to keeping women economically dependent and politically silent. They believe that a woman is defying the will of god if she takes birth control, has an abortion, or chooses not to have kids.
The restrictions on the right to vote, like the SAVE Act, disproportionately affect women, as well as the attacks on DEI. They are all central issues in the far-right’s mission to make women subordinate to men, powerless, and silent.

5. A Rejection Of Democracy And Pluralism
Democracy is fundamentally flawed because it allows ungodly people to rule. So, only biblical Christianity is legitimate in public life. Crucially, Civic leaders submit to God’s law, not the will of the people (sound familiar in the GOP?)
Religious pluralism is immoral because it gives equal standing to “false religions,” as only Christianity is a legitimate religion. You can not have a society that allows for anyone to practice whatever religion they want.

The Expansion Of Rushdoony’s Ideas
Rushdoony’s son-in-law, Gary North, expanded the program into economics (gold/silver currency, anti-Fed, anti-welfare). Greg Bahnsen argued that Old Testament civil law still binds modern states. Together, they trained activists to seize power through politics, economics, and culture, openly rejecting neutrality and secular democracy.
By the 1970s, this “kingdom on earth” project matured into a movement. It was to build God’s rule now, through law and policy, not through personal faith alone.

White Supremacy And Anti-Democracy Enter the Political Arena
Rushdoony defended slavery as “benevolent,”. He opposed civil rights and integration (referred to it as a “mistake”), and helped mainstream a theological defence of racial hierarchy. The beliefs were later laundered into politics via American exceptionalism and the Religious Right.
Under Reagan, “city on a hill” became a patriotic slogan that blurred church and state. It supercharged today’s white Christian Nationalism. In doing so, it created a marriage of sorts between politics and this supposed Christian founding. By framing it as a symbol of America’s exceptionalism and America’s destiny to be a moral beacon to the world, it became a staple of political rhetoric.

An Indoctrination From The Start
Like high-control cults, the movement isolates followers, distrusts outside information, and trains children early through homeschool curricula to see secular institutions as enemies. This isn’t “just faith.” It’s systemic indoctrination designed to produce political outcomes.
This Foundation Created Trump’s Agenda
It all may sound extreme – because it is – but this foundation is the logic behind Project 2025. Networks of churches, schools, media outlets, big corporations, tech giants, and billionaires have spent decades teaching that democracy is the problem and biblical law is the solution. Then, placing loyalists where it counts.
What once sounded fringe is now governing reality. The beginnings of a dystopian White Christian nation under the governance of an American Fascist Party.

The Seven Mountains Mandate – A Blueprint for Theocracy
Dominion Theology comes with a playbook — the Seven Mountains Mandate. A roadmap for Christian conquest. This isn’t about personal salvation or private belief. It’s about power. It reframes faith as a “call to conquer” seven cultural spheres — religion, family, education, government, media, arts & entertainment, and business.
Churches, schools, and ministries double as recruitment and training centers, producing loyalists who work their way into school boards, legislatures, courtrooms, newsrooms, and corporate boardrooms. This is how you transform a Country into a restrictive Christian state — one institution at a time, until every decision-maker answers to their version of “biblical principles.
This slow, steady infiltration is how you change a nation without firing a shot.

From Missions To Politics: A Gradual Infiltration
This infiltration didn’t happen overnight. Bill Bright’s Campus Crusade for Christ and Loren Cunningham’s Youth With a Mission turned college campuses and overseas missions into political training grounds. Francis Schaeffer then built the bridge to mainstream politics, preaching that “secular humanism” was destroying civilization and that Christians must seize cultural power with the same urgency as political power. His message seeded today’s Republican culture wars — from book bans to anti-LGBTQ laws — amplified through relentless propaganda.
The Mandate is sold as “leadership training” but uses classic cult tactics: controlling information, isolating followers, and framing the outside world as hostile. Believers are told they’re part of an elite mission chosen by God, and that secular or non-Christian people are enemies to be neutralized.
Their influence is everywhere — in laws, in schools, in courtrooms, in your social media feed. Each “mountain” is an institution they intend to dominate permanently, bypassing elections and public opinion. Dominion Theology rests on two pillars — white supremacy and patriarchal control — which is why it aligns seamlessly with white nationalist ideology. Together, they aim for a theocracy where white Christians rule indefinitely.
“Republicans don’t ignore the Constitution by accident.
They plan to dismantle it – and the current rule of law.
That’s why clinging to political “norms” is suicidal;
Those norms are already being erased.
If Democrats and moderates won’t fight fire with fire,
they will lose the fire and the house it’s burning.“

A Brainwashing Strategy Hidden In Plain Sight
The Seven Mountains Mandate packages its authoritarian agenda as “leadership training.” In reality, it uses classic cult tactics — controlling information, isolating followers from dissent, and framing outsiders as dangerous. Believers are told they’re part of an elite, God-chosen mission and that anyone outside the movement — secular, liberal, non-Christian — is an enemy to be neutralized, not a fellow citizen.
This psychological conditioning is how you turn neighbors into foot soldiers for a religious authoritarian state.
The Seven Mountains In Action
This mandate is not theory — it’s already reshaping America
- Religion: Megachurch networks, charismatic movements, and televangelists who blend “prophecy” with Republican talking points have become political mobilization machines.
- Family: Laws enforcing patriarchal norms, restricting reproductive rights, and erasing LGBTQ visibility are multiplying in both the Federal government and across red states.
- Education: From Christian nationalist curricula in Texas to the attempted dismantling of the Department of Education, banned book lists, the goal is to replace public education with ideological indoctrination.
- Government: Flooded local and national politics with candidates who openly seek to dismantle secular governance. Trump’s administration has been stacked in key positions with loyalists like JD Vance, Pete Hegseth, Stephen Miller, Russell Vought (Project 2025 Architect), and Mike Johnson (to name just 4 from a long list of individuals) — all openly seeking to dismantle secular governance.
- Media: A widespread right-wing media empirefrom Fox News to fringe outlets, independent media, and influencers, spreads relentless propaganda and amplifies Dominionist messaging.
- Arts & Entertainment: Christian films, music, and influencers normalize the ideology in pop culture, while even ICE recruitment materials have been dressed with Bible verses.
- Business: Billionaire backers and faith-based corporations funnel money into the movement, operating in near-total secrecy. Leonard Leo, Koch, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Heritage Foundation, and Cambridge Analytica are a few to get you started on the web of influence and corruption.
Dominion Theology rests on two pillars — white supremacy and patriarchal control, which is why it fits seamlessly with white nationalist ideology. Together, they promote a vision where white Christians hold ultimate authority and everyone else is second-class. That vision is enforced through voter suppression, gerrymandering, stacked courts, and laws that strip rights from women, LGBTQ people, immigrants, and people of color.
“And here’s the most dangerous truth: white Christians are now less than half the U.S. population. This is a shrinking minority fighting to rule the majority — permanently

The White Supremacist And Patriarchal Core
R.J. Rushdoony — the father of Christian Reconstructionism — made their foundation explicit: racial hierarchy and male dominance as God’s law. He called slavery “benevolent,” claimed the enslaved “benefited” under Christian masters, and opposed racial integration outright.
That theology now fuels white Christian nationalism. Multiculturalism is framed as a mortal threat, and the pattern is consistent: target Black and brown communities first through voter suppression, violence, and criminalization. White Christians are cast as divinely chosen rulers; everyone else is an obstacle to be removed.
Extremist militias, political operatives, and radicalized church networks cherry-pick scripture to sanctify hate while breaking the very values they claim to defend.
“White supremacy is alive and well in the United States — and it is using violence, lawmaking, and intimidation to shape a conservative political agenda. That’s not a relic of the past. It’s happening in state legislatures, school boards, and courtrooms right now.”
A Cult In Everything But Name
Dominionist communities function like high-control religious cults. From birth, children are immersed in a worldview where racial separation and rigid gender roles are taught as divine law. Fear, social isolation, and relentless indoctrination keep members in line.
- Women who question their “biblical role” are shamed, silenced, or cut off from their entire support system overnight.
- Boys are taught that leadership, dominance, and even violence are masculine virtues.
- Girls are trained for domestic submission and motherhood above all else.
- Outsiders — feminists, LGBTQ people, racial minorities, and religious minorities — are cast as part of a demonic conspiracy against God’s kingdom.
‘They are brainwashing an entire generation of little girls who do not know any better who are giving away their freedom, thinking it’s divinely ordered by God because they have twisted the Bible to serve their desire for power.’
Monte Madar, ex-Christian nationalist

Patriarchy As Policy
At the heart of Dominionism is a rigid, non-negotiable patriarchy. Women are told their God-ordained duty is to submit to male authority and bear as many children as possible — the Quiverfull ideology. Large families aren’t about love of children; they’re a demographic weapon in the culture wars.
That belief translates directly into Republican-backed policy: abortion bans, restrictions on contraception, attacks on sex education, and even weakening domestic violence protections.
“The logic is chilling — if male authority is “God’s law,” then civil law that protects women from male abuse must be dismantled.”
We’ve seen it in action:
- Quiverfull families like the Duggars, whose image of “biblical womanhood” masked systemic abuse.
- State legislatures passing laws that force pregnancy on rape survivors.
- A Republican political class that continues to shield Trump in the Epstein scandal despite over 1,440 known Republicans accused or convicted of sexual crimes against women and minors.

From Theology To Authoritarian Reality
These beliefs now shape U.S. law and culture. Attacks on affirmative action, voter suppression, anti-LGBTQ laws, and reproductive restrictions all stem from this ideological core. The overlap between Christian Nationalists and white nationalist groups at rallies and insurrections is not a coincidence — it’s a shared mission.
“This is not a culture war — it is a power grab designed to be irreversible.”
By fusing religious fundamentalism with white supremacy, Dominionism becomes politically powerful and deeply exclusionary. It normalizes hate under the guise of faith and drives policies to strip rights from anyone outside its narrow vision.
This restructuring makes the Seven Mountains section feed directly into the White Supremacist and Patriarchal Core section without repeating the same setup twice. The tone climbs steadily from “strategic infiltration” → “ideological core” → “cult tactics” → “policy consequences” → “authoritarian reality.”

Connecting the Dots – Republicans, Trump, And The Current Agenda
How did we get here?
It wasn’t an accident. For decades, Dominion Theology and the Seven Mountains Mandate have been intentionally woven into Republican politics as a governing blueprint for the party’s future.
A long, calculated campaign to merge religious fundamentalism with conservative political power. The traditional Republican Party has gone.
The White Supremacist–Christian Nationalist Pipeline
If you want to see how deeply Christianity is now embedded in right-wing American politics, the numbers make the connection impossible to ignore: 2022 Midterm Voter Election Poll
- Two-thirds of Republicans are White and Christian, compared with 41% of the U.S. overall.
- Over half of Republican voters identify as either Christian nationalism sympathizers (33%) or adherents (21%)
- Republicans (21%) are four times more likely than Democrats (5%) to be Christian nationalist adherents.
- Over 60% of Americans are worried about elected officials who stay quiet and do not speak out against white nationalists.
These aren’t just voters — they are the people choosing candidates, funding campaigns, writing laws, shaping the courts, federal staff, law enforcement, and State legislators.
“We are in the process of the second American Revolution,
which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be”
Kevin Roberts, President of The Heritage Foundation (Project 2025), July 2024

GOP Christian Nationalists In Power
This ideology isn’t hiding in the shadows anymore. Instead of getting people fired or pushed to resign, it is now boldly out in the open. It’s embedded at the highest levels of government; walking the halls of Congress, sitting on the Supreme Court, and shaping national security policy.
JD Vance, Vice-President
Protégé of technofascist Peter Thiel and planted as Vice President to further the far-right Christian agenda, Vance supports capital punishment for abortion and co-authored the foreword for the 900-page Project 2025 blueprint. He openly networks with Christian supremacists like Lance Wallnau, a key figure in the New Apostolic Reformation movement, which is focused on erasing the separation between church and state. Wallnau is one of the architects of “Christian Trumpism” and a master of political propaganda in religious packaging.

Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defence
Hegseth is a Christian nationalist with a deus vult tattoo who has spoken openly in support of a second civil war. In his 2020 book, he wrote: “We don’t want to fight, but like our fellow Christians 1,000 years ago, we must. Our American crusade is not about literal swords, and our fight is not with guns yet.” Hegseth sees himself as an American Crusader, inspired by the Medieval Crusades. Deus Vult is worn by those who “see themselves as at war with those trying to take down American Christianity and Western civilization at large”.
During his confirmation hearings, not a single senator probed about White Christian Nationalist or Christian Reconstructionist ties. About January 6, he said that the military would have to “pick a side” if Democrats won. Attends Pastor Doug Wilson’s church in Washington DC. Wilson is an ardent advocate for Christian nationalism and a theocratic America resembling Gilead.
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Stephen Miller, White House Deputy Chief of Staff
A vocal white supremacist with deep ties to extremist policy-making, Miller has used his position to advance immigration crackdowns, attack judges, and expand ICE into a de facto Gestapo. He has significant influence over the Department of Justice, has drafted or coordinated many of Trump’s executive orders, including trying to end birthright citizenship and attacking higher education. He calls any federal judges who oppose Trump’s illegal and unconstitutional policies as Marxist Judges, who are carrying out a “judicial coup” by restricting the powers of the US president.
He pushes a narrative that “the writ of habeas corpus can be suspended in a time of invasion,” when dealing with immigration cases, and that the Trump administration was “actively looking at” carrying out such a suspension, depending on “whether the courts do the right thing or not”. Miller is the man behind the ICE Gestapo, recently increasing the quota of ICE to 3000 to include more than just migrants with criminal records. With a large financial stake in Palantir, Thiel’s company, Miller profits personally from ICE arrests and deportations.
“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to NOT want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down … We want to put them in trauma.”
Russell Vought, OMB
Russell Vought, Director of the United States Office of Management And Budget
A principal architect of Project 2025 and an open advocate for theocratic governance.
Mike Huckabee, US Ambassador To Israel
Huckabee is a high-profile extremist. Christian Zionism is part of his racist, homophobic, and repressive White Christian Nationalist beliefs. He promotes Christian Zionism as part of the broader white Christian nationalist foreign policy agenda.
Justice Samuel Alito, Supreme Court
Flew a Christian nationalist flag just days after the January 6 insurrection — a clear public signal of allegiance to the movement.
For every public figure, there are dozens more embedded in think tanks, PACs, legal groups, and bureaucratic positions, ensuring Christian nationalist ideology becomes structural, not just political.

Republicans Have Fully Embraced Dominionism
The GOP’s transformation began in the Reagan era, when the Religious Right, led by figures like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, fused evangelical activism with Republican political strategy. Policy battles over education, abortion, and “family values” were reframed as moral imperatives dictated by God.
Over the decades, the party gradually deepened its ties with churches, homeschooling networks, and conservative Christian groups. By the time of George W. Bush, the fusion of church and state was pretty normalized.
And now today’s GOP platform reads less like a political program and more like a Christian nationalist manifesto.

The Trump Factor: A “Chosen” Wrecking Ball
Donald Trump’s rise didn’t just empower Christian nationalism — it unleashed it. Despite violating every evangelical moral standard, Dominionist leaders cast him as a modern-day Cyrus, a flawed vessel chosen by God to deliver His people. This framing allowed them to excuse corruption, cruelty, and lawlessness as part of a divine plan.
Trump repaid their loyalty with unprecedented power:
- Stacking the Supreme Court with hardline conservatives who would carry out the right rulings to further the dominionists’ agenda.
- Overturning Roe v. Wade.
- Banning diversity programs.
- Embedding religious privilege across federal agencies.
So behind the scenes, Christian nationalist operatives were not merely supporting him — they were writing policy, recommending judicial nominees, and drafting executive orders.
Cult Dynamics As Political Weaponry
The alliance between Trump and Christian nationalists mirrors a high-control cult. Leaders preach that loyalty to Trump equals loyalty to God; dissent is treated as heresy. Political opponents are reframed as demonic threats, a narrative that justifies extreme action.
At rallies, from pulpits, and across social media, this framing creates a permission structure for authoritarianism: dehumanize the opposition, and then remove all their rights, all under the banner of spiritual warfare.

January 6th: An Insurrection With No Consequences
The January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol wasn’t just political chaos or Trump refusing to leave the White House — it was also a religious mission. Crosses rose beside Trump flags. Prayer circles formed on the steps. Rioters claimed divine orders as they tried to overturn the election in God’s name.
This is exactly what Dominion Theology prescribes: when “God’s order” is threatened, believers must act — even violently.
The insurrection was not an isolated incident.
- The rise of armed Oath Keepers stationing themselves at polling locations as a new voter intimidation tactic.
- Far-right extremists have threatened officials and legislators with armed “stop the steal” protests
- The assassination and attempted assassination of democratic lawmakers in Minnesota.
This is the pipeline from pulpit rhetoric to political violence — and it’s working exactly as intended.
Project 2025 And The Road Ahead
The movement’s plan is no longer hidden. Project 2025, backed by far-right think tanks like The Heritage Foundation, lays out in detail how to:
- Dismantle civil rights protections
- Erase reproductive freedom
- Purge LGBTQ rights from law and culture
- Rewrite education to remove racial history and scientific realities
- Centralize unprecedented power in the presidency
All cloaked in the language of “biblical values.” This is not governance — it’s theocratic restructuring.

Trump: The Tool, Not The Mastermind
Trump is not the architect. He’s the wrecking ball. Dominionist leaders and far-right strategists wield him to smash democratic institutions so they can rebuild them in their own image. His charisma, media dominance, and shamelessness make him the perfect instrument — and he’s eager to play the part.
This is not about left versus right. It is about a Christian nationalist authoritarian movement using the Republican Party as its vehicle and Trump as its figurehead. They have the networks, the funding, and the ideology to succeed — and they are not hiding their intentions.
“This ideology is not just dangerous to democracy, but to every individual’s freedom — and it must be treated as domestic terrorism.”
The Power Behind the Pulpit: Key Figures, Networks, and Money
Christian nationalism is not just pastors preaching to the choir — it’s an industrial-scale political machine. A small circle of leaders, billionaire funders, and tightly linked networks see this ideology as the perfect vehicle for their own power.
Key Figures Driving the Agenda
- Lance Wallnau – Architect of the Seven Mountains strategy, blending prophecy with GOP politics.
- Ralph Drollinger – Runs Capitol Ministries, which disciples members of Congress and Trump’s cabinet on biblical governance.
- Tony Perkins – President of the Family Research Council, a major hub for anti-LGBTQ and anti-abortion lobbying.
- Kevin Roberts – President of The Heritage Foundation and lead architect of Project 2025.
- David Barton – Revisionist historian pushing a Christian nationalist rewrite of U.S. history in schools.
- Justices John Roberts & Samuel Alito – Legal enablers of Christian nationalist ideals inside the Supreme Court.

The Billionaire Class Fueling The Movement
- Leonard Leo – The Federalist Society’s power broker who engineered the conservative capture of the Supreme Court. He is also very instrumental in the successful rigging of elections generally.
- Koch network – Funders of libertarian and authoritarian causes, from deregulation to voter suppression.
- Peter Thiel – Tech billionaire bankrolling candidates who openly support authoritarian governance. He is a follower of Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance’s mentor, and is very influential to the Trump administration.
- Elon Musk – Bought X to normalize, and spread far-right talking points and boost Christian nationalist influencers. This is an excellent documentary on Musk’s heavy involvement in the 2024 election.
- Rupert Murdoch – Through Fox News and other outlets, he provides a significant propaganda arm of the movement.
- Betsy DeVos & Family – Funding the dismantling of public education in favor of religious schooling.
The Networks That Amplify Them
These players are embedded in a vast web of megachurches, Christian colleges, homeschooling associations, media outlets like Salem Media and CBN, and political groups such as The Heritage Foundation and Turning Point Faith. They share donors, cross-promote messages, and strategically plant loyalists at every level of government.
The Money Pipeline
Funding flows through dark-money PACs, shell nonprofits, and faith-based corporations that conceal donor identities. This money bankrolls:
- Strategic court challenges to rewrite the law.
- School board takeovers.
- State legislative campaigns.
- Ballot initiatives to erode civil rights.
They know a $50,000 school board race can shape the next generation more effectively than a $5 million Senate campaign.
This is not scattered activism — it’s a coordinated, well-funded movement designed to outlast elections, outmaneuver opposition, and permanently reshape the country.

This Is A Threat To Everyone
Dominion Theology and the Seven Mountains Mandate are not about saving souls — they are about seizing control. The goal is to dismantle democracy, erase pluralism, and enforce a rigid, exclusionary worldview on every aspect of life. This danger reaches everyone, religious or secular, conservative or progressive.

The Threat To Democracy & Rule Of Law
At its core, this movement rejects the idea of democracy itself. In Dominionist thinking, secular laws, equality, and human rights are obstacles to God’s kingdom. Elections are not contests of policy — they are spiritual battles where only one result, their victory, is legitimate.
When they lose to the Democrats, it is “proof” of corruption or demonic interference. That belief justifies overturning election results, cheating to secure power, and rejecting any peaceful transfer of authority. We saw this on January 6, 2021, and again in the 2024 election, where losing was never an option.
Make no mistake, free and fair elections, in their eyes, are the devil’s work.
We’re watching it unfold again now in Texas — racist gerrymandering, threats of arrest, and even FBI targeting of lawmakers are just pieces of the Republicans’ wider plan to rig more elections and lock in authoritarian rule.

The Threat to Women, LGBTQ People, And People of Color
Dominionist policy is a blueprint for forced submission:
- Women – Abortion bans, restrictions on contraception, attacks on voting rights, no higher education, elimination of DEI practices, and rollbacks of domestic violence protections.
- Women and minors — Shielding men who commit sexual assault to both adults. and children. Incest and sexual abuse in these “Christians” eyes is ok; you just have to be forgiven. In fact, perversely the more you sin (sexual abuse), the more you repent, the holier you are.
- LGBTQ people – Erasure from school curriculums, marriage restrictions, and targeted healthcare bans.
- Racial minorities – Voter suppression, systemic discrimination, and laws reinforcing racial hierarchy.
By fusing with white nationalism, the movement ensures that white Christians retain ultimate power, even as they become a shrinking minority.
Women: Understand that THIS is what they believe as a movement – and as the Republican Party.
“These people have been prepping for 50 years to do this, and they will take everything from us if we allow them to. This is their norm, not the exception and do not let people convince you otherwise”
Monte Mader, ex-Christian nationalist
The Threat To Minorities & Anti-Trump U.S Citizens
“One day when it’s safe… when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable… everyone will have always been against it.” — Omar El Akkad
These are not “immigration centers” — they are concentration camps. Trump-branded facilities like “Alligator Alcatraz” and the “speedway slammer” are marketed as grotesque spectacles while migrants, U.S. citizens, and even travelers are caged, denied basic needs, and dehumanized and forced to eat off the floor like animals.
The mocking names are all part of the cruelty, turning human suffering into entertainment, like a real-life ‘Hunger Games’. This is deliberate desensitization: normalize the horror until the public stops noticing. MAGA supporters pose for selfies at camp gates while officials joke about feeding detainees to alligators.
The parallels to early Nazi Germany are not abstract — they are direct. Hitler’s camps were public long before the gas chambers. Ordinary Germans knew Jews were being rounded up, stripped of rights, and abused. In the early years, the violence was visible and rationalized, exactly as we are seeing in America now.
Germans knew of the Holocaust horror about death camps.
“The world is witnessing civil rights abuses and war crimes.”
The Threat To Religious Freedom
Despite claiming to defend Christianity, Dominionists seek a theocracy where only their interpretation of the Bible is lawful. Other religions — and even dissenting Christians — are delegitimized.
Their definition of “religious freedom” means freedom for themselves, and no one else.

The GOP Is A Domestic Terror Network
The Republican Party is no longer just a political party — it is the political arm of a radicalized, cult-like movement.
Right-wing media, social platforms run by Musk and Zuckerberg, influencers like Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson, and Russian propaganda pipelines have conditioned millions to see opponents as not merely wrong, but evil – even demonic.
They call this a holy war to “save America,” and they have been trained to believe that violence is righteous.

The Political Violence Will Continue To Escalate
“January 6th was not an ending — it was a rehearsal.”
Since Trump’s rise, far-right extremists have committed the overwhelming majority of political violence in America: 57% of incidents, over 335 deaths, compared to 25% and 22 deaths on the far-left (2020–2025).
From lone-wolf attacks to armed voter intimidation, this movement treats violence as a legitimate political tool. Communities of color, immigrants, and religious minorities are increasingly unsafe.
A 2023 Public Religion Research Institute and the Brookings Institution report found that the appetite for political violence is growing:
- 23% of Americans agree that “because things have gotten so far off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country.” – up from 15% in 2021
- 33% of these Americans are Republicans.
- Nearly one-third of white evangelicals support political violence.
- 41% of Trump supporters are open to violence from “true American patriots.”
The Threat To Global Stability
U.S. Christian nationalism is part of a wider global authoritarian network. It aligns with far-right parties in Europe, strongman leaders abroad, and religious extremists worldwide. Through media, missions, and political alliances, its influence crosses borders, eroding democratic institutions and empowering repression far beyond American soil.

Silence Is Not An Option
This movement is entrenched in political power, bankrolled by billionaires, and shaping legislation at every level of government. Ignoring it only gives it more room to grow unchecked.
Recognizing it as the domestic terrorism it is—and treating it as such—is essential to safeguarding our rights and freedoms. Are we really going to let white Christian supremacists strip them away without a fight?

You Need To Pay Attention To Fight Back
Dominion Theology is actively remaking America into a place where fewer and fewer people are safe. Every culture-war battle, every restrictive law, every attack on democratic institutions traces back to this ideology.
Over the last decade, Dominionist beliefs have moved from the political fringe to the very center of Republican power. Under Trump, Christian nationalists gained unprecedented influence—overturning Roe v. Wade, gutting voting rights, and embedding religious privilege into public policy.
Now, with Project 2025, they are openly dismantling every remaining check and balance in the U.S. government, replacing them with fascist authoritarian control. The pace is accelerating because opposition has been too weak, confined mostly to the lower courts, and only a handful of Democratic governors and reps who understand what’s coming if these extremists are not stopped.

Stopping Them Requires A Strong Opposition
Democratic leaders in Congress and the Senate have repeatedly failed to meet the moment. Many even voted to confirm the judges and pass the policies now being weaponized against Americans. You cannot appease authoritarianism—every compromise is a win for them.
This is not politics as usual. This is a fascist regime. Only a strong, unapologetic opposition—willing to abandon outdated norms—can stop people who cheat, lie, ignore all rules, and treat the Constitution as an obstacle.
You don’t take pens and paper to a gun fight; you take automatic rifles or bombs when so much is at stake.
“At a time in history when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, democracy and decency, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction – fawning over the most dangerous authoritarian America has ever witnessed.”
— Robert Reich
Globally, this Christian nationalist surge is emboldening far-right and religious extremist groups, forming alliances backed by technocrats like Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and other far-right billionaires. The U.S. is exporting not just culture, but extremism, fueling destabilization worldwide.

The Consequences Of Inaction
Authoritarian movements rarely announce themselves. They advance step by step—changing laws, reshaping culture, silencing opposition. By the time the danger is undeniable, it’s often too late.
Dominionism is already embedded in U.S. political structures, and resisting it gets harder—and more dangerous—each year as power consolidates. The pattern is clear: ICE quotas expanding to target U.S. citizens. The opening of Alligator Alcatraz concentration camps. Deployment of Marines against peaceful protesters in Los Angeles. Trump declaring himself “entitled” to five more congressional seats in Texas.
The question isn’t whether they will try to cement permanent control. The question is whether enough people will fight back before it’s irreversible.

This Fight Is Everyone’s Responsibility
The long term threat to us all is not Trump.
The long term threat we all have to defeat is Christian nationalism
Dominionism’s cult-like grip—combined with its political, legal, and financial power—makes it one of the most serious domestic threats of our time. The danger is not theoretical. It is unfolding in real time: in court rulings from the Roberts Court, in the actions of the DOJ, FBI, Homeland Security, and the Department of Defense, and decisions made in state legislatures and school boards across the country.
Understanding and confronting Dominion Theology is no longer optional—it is essential. The more people recognize it for what it is—a hostile takeover disguised as faith—the better chance we have to stop it.
I don’t know about you, but I refuse to live in the real-world version of Gilead after generations before us fought so hard for equality.
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Gemma Lawrence is the creator of This Brits Life. Born and raised in England, she has been living in British Columbia, Canada as a permanent resident since 2016. A solo traveler for the past 9 years, she hopes to inspire and help others to enjoy solo adventures too. As someone who has always struggled with her self-confidence and mental health, she also shares tips and inspirational stories relating to self-love, self-care, and mental health.
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